Corrections

Published: October 28, 2007

The Pulse column on Oct. 14, about coats, misstated the primary focus of Richard Nixon's 1952 national address known as the Checkers speech. It was about an independent audit clearing Nixon of malfeasance with campaign funds; the speech was not about Pat Nixon's ''respectable Republican cloth coat,'' a line he used in the speech to deny that she had a mink coat.